Research support sessions coming up

We are planning to run a number of support sessions specifically for postgraduate researchers during the Spring Term.  Here is a quick overview on what will be on offer:

Discover Discover

Covering:

·         What Discover does

·         Advanced search options

·         Personalisation

o   My account

o   Saved searches and alerts

·         Going beyond Discover

Research, social media and getting published

Covering:

·         Social media and the pros/cons

o   Blogs and Twitter

o   Researchgate, LinkedIn

o   Caution when ‘pre-publishing’ for future journal publication

·         Journals and impact factors

o   What the different types are

o   How to find them. What are they?

o   Other considerations (e.g. open access)

 

Keeping track of your reading

Covering:

·         Current awareness alerts

o   Zetoc and Ebsco offerings

·         RefWorks

·         Options for collating RSS feeds

·         Tools for organising your digital and physical library

Dates and times are being organised right now, so we'll have news of those and links to book in very soon.